Mon.Aug 14, 2017

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama. I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. The image of boards and of investors vs. founder conflicts has been so at odds with my experiences on dozens of boards over the past 20 years that I thought it was worth sharing what I actually see.

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3 Tips for a Strong Startup Company Culture

Up and Running

At BarBend , we like to think we know a thing or two about building strong, healthy bodies—and as a newer business, we’re also interested in creating a strong and healthy company culture. The startup boom has disrupted and challenged many traditional ways of doing business, but perhaps none more so than company culture. Flexible time off, frequent remote work, and inspiring office spaces—once only a pipe dream for starched-collared stiffs chained to their cubicles—is now becoming a reality for m

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Use These Two Methods To Create Constructive Competition For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Durlak, Co-Founder & VP of Operations at Scout RFP. One of the best ways for your business to increase savings is to foster competition. If this doesn’t sound right, think again: When procurement is taking the lead, creating constructive competition within the vendor space is vital for businesses that want to increase savings and, in turn, positively increase their bottom line.

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Top Coworking Benefits And How To Select A Space

YFS Magazine

If you work from home, consider keeping a coworking space on the side. Here’s why I like coworking and what to look for when considering one.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund

K9 Ventures

42: The Answer to the ultimate fund size? Those of you who have read or watched the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are aware of the pop culture meme around the number 42. Yes, 42: The answer to life, the Universe, and everything. For anyone who hasn’t seen the movie, here’s a clip courtesy of YouTube for the reference. Enjoy watching… It took the supercomputer Deep Thought (the name seems oddly fitting with the current buzz around Deep Learning!

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How To Become A More Confident Girlboss

YFS Magazine

Confidence is often the weakest link for women. Here are six ways you can become more confident as a female entrepreneur.

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5 SEO Red Flags That Scream ‘Don’t Hire This Company’

YFS Magazine

If you’re experiencing any of the following scenarios with your SEO company, it may be a sign that they aren’t being completely forthright with you.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

By Dr. Karen M. Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Billionaire Bill Gates once said that to win big, sometimes you need to take big risks [1]. This may sound something of a cliché in a world where over 70% of CEOs are getting more concerned about economic, social and political risks [2]. If you are a small business operator, risks are something you often want to avoid.

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10 Key Business Domains With ‘Big Data’ Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though ‘big data’ has now been around for several years, the opportunities for startups seem to keep growing, just as the amount of data keeps growing. According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere.

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The First Decision

Austin Startup

As a repeat founder I have made tens of thousands of startup business decisions and observed many times that number. The most common mistake I see in the decision making process is losing sight of context. The choices you make on Day 1 will affect your actions on Day 1000, and on the Exit Day, which you will eventually reach whether it’s good or bad.

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A Post-Trump Globe. And Trump had little to do with it.

deal architect

Whether you worship or abhor President Trump, whether you are a proud American or one who thinks Americans are ugly humans, get ready for a dramatically new world order. And it has little to do with Trump. We are ending.

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